Review — Still/Born 2017

This film is truly magnificent. It’s insanely intense, seriously creepy, and offers a few effectively scary moments. It even could be seen as an important look at the very serious and too often dismissed issue of postpartum depression/psychosis. Even better, the acting is just phenomenal, particularly Christie Burke as Mary, a mother desperate to save her newborn baby when she becomes convinced a horrible demonic force is trying to take him away.
“Still/Born” really is one of the most effective horror movies Ive ever seen, that being said, it’s certainly not for everyone, definitely not always easy to watch as there are some extremely harrowing and nerve-wracking scenes.
Mary and her husband Jack suffer a devastating loss when one of their twins is born stillborn, but they still have little Adam who needs them. Not long after bringing the baby home, Mary begins hearing strange noises on the baby monitor, when they replace it with a video monitor she sees a figure standing over baby Adam’s crib in the middle of the night. Terrified for her baby’s safety, Mary begins to fall apart and things only go from bad to worse, is she suffering from postpartum psychosis or is something really after Adam? When she reads about another woman who claims a demon stole her baby, she goes to visit her and learns that there may be a way to save Adam…it’s utterly unthinkable..but she’s already lost one child.. and wouldn’t a mother do anything to keep her baby alive?
I loved “Still/Born” from start to finish, I literally adored everything about it, I thought it was perfect, especially the ending, which is where so many other films fall short.
Here’s an awesomely apt excerpt from a real horror review for “Still/Born”:
“ ..simultaneously offers a sensitive insider’s view of the anxieties and pathologies that can come with motherhood, and the horror of a vulnerable woman’s struggle with a malevolent baby-eating she-devil..” — Anton Bitel.